The wine displays a tight, youthful bouquet of citrus & stone fruit, with hints of lemon, nutty nuances & complex oatmeal notes. The palate is refined & textural with an integrated acid to balance. The wine shows its Marlborough origin exhibiting minerality, balance & length. 100% Chardonnay. This wine has been crafted using natural winemaking techniques & minimal handling. Predominantly hand harvested & whole bunched pressed, the free run & the lightest pressings were transferred straight to oak barriques with full solids for fermentation. A proportion of the barriques were allowed to undergo natural fermentation while the remainder were inoculated with desirable Chardonnay yeasts. Fermented warm, the wine was allowed to reach dryness before undergoing partial lees stirring & malolactic fermentation. After 10 months in barriques on yeast lees the wine was lightly fined, filtered & bottled. Limited stock.